Drake Milligan just returned to TV, after becoming a finalist on America’s Got Talent. The 24-year-old performed his current single, “Sounds Like Something I’d Do,” on the award-winning The Kelly Clarkson Show. The song is from his debut Dallas/Fort Worth, album, released last September.
Milligan auditioned for America’s Got Talent with “Sounds Like Something I’d Do,” earning high praise from all four judges, especially Simon Cowell.
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“I think this performance should make a difference with what you’re doing,” Cowell rightfully predicted at the time. “Because people are going to like you. The song was really, r.eally good as well. It was real authentic. That’s what I liked about it.”
Milligan had already been making music before his AGT audition, using the reality TV talent show as a platform to get his music heard on an even larger scale.
“Going to country radio is really what I’ve been working towards over the last five years,” Milligan told Taste of Country. “I came from Texas to Nashville because I wanted to be played on the radio. To me, the most commercial radio artist ever is George Strait. I don’t think radio has to be one kind of sound. George was the best at bringing energy and fun songs to the radio. Radio obviously is the absolute game-changer for a country music artist. It’s going to be the opportunity for after AGT to keep this thing going and make a career.”
Dallas/Fort Worth is Milligan’s autobiographical look at both his Texas upbringing, and his move to Music City to pursue music full-time. It was Milligan’s idea to combine the two ideas, along with Stoney Creek Records’ Adrian Michaels.
“I’ve been in Nashville about five years, and really this record is kind of a culmination of a ton of songs that I’ve written in those five years,” Milligan told Everything Nash. “And we were sitting there in Houston a while back, and we had these 14 tracks cut, and Adrian goes, ‘Man, your music, it’s like Dallas and Fort Worth. It’s just so different. You’ve got this kind of polished side and you’ve got this kind of traditional honky-tonk side.’ And that’s when the light bulb went off, like, ‘Wow, that’s it. That’s what the record should be called.’”
Find Dallas/Fort Worth and a list of Milligan’s upcoming shows at DrakeMilligan.com.